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Created on: May 14, 2008 Last Updated: March 10, 2012
Go to work to
Pay a bill
Or eat a meal?
Bills due
Cupboards bare
What am I to do?
Living week to week
Paycheck to paycheck
Can life be anymore bleak?
Choose one or the other
the mere thought
Is a bit of a bother.
A new week
Empty shelves
Overdue bills
Undeniable streak.
Can't seem to get ahead
No relief insight
Barely holding on by a thread.
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