to the student housing association
by Aarya Reddy
Arizona State University
Aarya Reddy is a freshman at Arizona State University and is a double major in Economics and Computer Science.
to the student housing association
A while ago, you charged my friend a total of 50 dollars
before he left the dorm, since he left midway through the semester, a fee for
cleaning up after him though he cleaned up well enough after himself;
Dengo, was his name, and he was angry and helpless,
especially since he fought with our building manager to
force him to erase the bill; And so, out of necessity, I request the
governing body, in charge of the managers and the floor assistants, the main
housing association to return the 50 dollars, and somehow his tuition, while you’re at it; Sorry,
I know this is unexpected but please oblige, my friend is heading to a place that’s
just like the movies, to be a real estate agent with his very own podcast, continually
killing it in the stock market; He has an answer that we don’t want to hear, and though he was
loud, an asshole when drunk, he was also my roommate; And so, new clouds gather up,
maelstroms of worry that seed a haunting of delicate vultures, all under the
Nightingale’s screeching fury, an image of the crows, and the gnats keep forming and
ovulating behind my eyes; Evolving was the vision of the absolute corner of
paradise, where I was almost amazed by the peace when buzzards soon circled, beaks
quivering at the sight of the carcass, buzzes peaking with the sound of the flies, the silence
raging out in the desert, singling out the horror that killed this boy, that killed my friend;
So, please respectfully comply and return his 50 dollars, he needs it, and please
transfer the full amount and not a dollar less; The new vision frightens me, so please
understand that there is a life at stake, a burning body of young blood, hot from
vying for the fastest way to the sun; Our Icarus of the switchback roads, may very
well die of an anxious accident or a fever from stress, please return his 50 dollars; Since
X already marks the spot, and he might rush to the finish line if his funds are insufficient;
You lot know best about payment deadlines, so I beseech you to hurry, time is steadily
zooming past his left-ear, and he may not make rent; Hurry, I’m writing to you as his friend.