Running on Empty Tank Top

There just isn't much left in the tank. At all. Maybe you've run out of cash until payday and there is more day left than pay, your kids have been throwing up all week (and you are on the verge of it yourself, but you don't have time for that fanciful notion others speak of called 'self care') and you still have to get everything done and you are wondering how life ever got this grueling, your creative skills have gone on walkabout and creativity is your living, maybe your car is literally running on empty and you are slipping it into neutral on hills just to get that bit further on that tank, whilst turning the a/c off (its just a luxury really, you can survive without it), you have been just been flogged to within an inch of your ...