Previously, a student. Currently, broke.

Fifty-one poems and pieces of prose by a young man with a Bachelor’s degree, struggling against the burden of his student loans during a period of middle-class unrest.

This was intended to be a collaborative poetry project considering subjects stretching the topical gap from A to Z, from pop culture relevancy to tapioca pudding. Instead, it became a lonesome piece with few complaints.

Each of these poems was hashed out on an electronic device in an attempt to quell some of the qualms that I ...