4 the west side by Hanna Dobroszycki

This piece was first published in Quarto’s 2020 Spring Print Edition.

I’m a slut
for Architectural Digest

the leather plush black couch

& rug
—featured on Page 1

within the foyer
says

i have a rug made
of lamb

choking the
mahogany floor

is my
middle name, you may call me

from now on
in my glass

class bathtub
& I

music, blushed by
the window

with
the park dark view &

I filet mignon
at night,

with my husband,
kids &

I money
down the

sin skinned lobby,
saying hello
to the doorman.

Illustration by Gisela Levy

Illustration by Gisela Levy

Hanna is a rising sophomore at Barnard College, intending to pursue English with a Creative Writing concentration. She likes a big open road.