A Love Letter to My Student Loan Bills (A Poem)

I was Navient’s child bride/He was much older than me

Alice C. Minium

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(Courtesy of Business Insider)

Forty-four-thousand-one-hundred-sixty-eight is
Such a pretty number
52 classrooms, 6 years, 104 exams
So many sleepless nights, for them (I make $19 an hour, not that Sallie ever cared)

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Alice C. Minium

Richmond-based writer, investigative researcher, and police abolitionist. Contact me at alice@openoversightva.org.