tickets by pounds

Selling tickets on yourself, 
by pound and ounce, 
for all you weigh - 
but we can't buy them
in amounts controlling 
shares for any say. 
You're trying to breathe 
and piss and balance 
beauty in release 
and shit, 
but 
all it simultaneously 
does for all of us 
is slide 

to find 
excuse 
to quit.