pricing by the pound

they weigh our meat

at the grocery

store.

steaks

and ground beef.

pork ribs,

and sausage.

they weigh the fish

and fruit,

produce,

flour and sugar.

everything goes

onto the scale,

measured

by the pound

or gram.

we pay a price

for what it weighs,

and yet

when we board a plane,

it doesn't matter

if you're skinny or

enormously round.