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# Musings from a BA Student
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/musings-from-a-ba-student/
- Published: 2025-02-15T17:18:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:02:35.000Z
- Author: Annabella Dlugi
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Annabella Dlugi*

Let me be an artist  
And live in a little shack  
On the shitty side of New York  
Heck, not even New York—Staten Island.

Let me be an artist  
Who walks home past the druggies  
Selling crack and cracking up themselves  
Sinking into the sidewalk like invisible sand.

I’ll be friends with the city’s rats  
The ones who eat Whole Foods pizza  
Like it’s their cocaine.  
Even a tete-a-tete with a city rat  
Is better than a day without art.

Let me be an artist  
Let me do something  
Be something  
In this crack-jacked world  
I’m just a measly scrap of receipt  
Getting tracked along by some  
City slicker’s shoe.

Let me talk in a lilting voice  
About the avantgarde dancers  
Of Manhattan  
The ecofeminist graffiti  
By the druggies’ favorite spot  
Let me write a poem  
About the woman who told me  
“Fuck off” while buying my six dollar wine.

I will gladly be a rat  
On the ferry from the island  
As long as I can dart around  
With an eye for beauty  
And a tongue for a crumb  
Of humanity.

Annabella Dlugi is a senior at Lawrence University studying English Literature. She loves all things art, especially theatre and music, and is fueled by obscene amounts of coffee, friends, and water walks.