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Living Week to Week, a poem by Phillip Smith

Living Week to Week by Phillip Smith Relief is what I seek ooo from this dread destiny ooo of living week to week. Make payments every week, ooo if only partially. Relief is what I seek. Creditors want to speak. Why does it have to be, ooo this living week to week? Spending I cannot tweak. No one can hear my plea. Relief is what I seek. The situation bleak; ooo my stark reality. I’m living week to week. My pay is at its peak. To get what’s due to me, ooo relief is what I seek ooo from living week to week. From Phillip Smith: “ My stories have been published by Jake Magazine, Inscape Magazine, Literally Stories, Chicago Literati, Comic Carnival Zine, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Dime Show Review. My poem “23 Years Sober” appeared in Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry. My stage adaptation of Stephen King’s novella “Rage” was produced in the spring of 1993. During my senior year at the University of Evansville, I was award