i am a building scheduled for demolition
Ben Starr
They
say you
never see it
coming, though,
in hindsight, two thousand
pounds of chilled nitroglycerin
was certainly a foreboding omen
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ben Starr studied poetry in college and as part of the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. A proud member of the Bursky Collective, his work has been published or is forthcoming in Bending Genres, Dishsoap Quarterly, Maudlin House, Gone Lawn, SoFloPoJo and other journals. Find more of his work on X — @benjaminstarr and at benstarrwrites.com.
