Ticket Taker

Do you validate?
I've been parked here
all my life.
I don't think
I should have to pay
the fee.

I've bought,
I've sought,
I've patronized.
I've writ,
I've bit,
I've rhapsodized.

Dear power,
you were a source
and a destination.
The least you might do
is help me not to die.