Salt
25th August 2009The salt’s gone hard, in the cellar
Salt for one, too much salt for one
Once salt was expensive
And hard to come by
Wasn’t it? Salt?
Like spices
Like thick milk in glass bottles
But I don’t remember that
Myself
I’m dipping into
The saline consciousness
Of humanity
25th August 2009 at 7:29 pm
Is salt a metaphor?
For, like, cocaine?
Or dessicated coconut?
Or really really really bad dandruff?
I don’t get this. There isn’t a punchline. Please rectify.
25th August 2009 at 9:40 pm
You are the salt of the earth.
26th August 2009 at 1:31 am
Nobody understood anything. Do you know the word salary comes from salt? Well that is because that was the thing that workers where paid with. Salt was the currency.
So is the getting paid consciousness of humanity. It is obvious that is what all is about.
26th August 2009 at 2:16 am
I drink thick milk from glass bottles. Farmer’s market, hell yeah.
26th August 2009 at 5:36 pm
I like this.
I was always struck by the salt law in India which made it illegal to make salt. On the surface such a daft law but since salt = life it says a lot about how the government viewed itself I suppose.
27th August 2009 at 12:21 am
AUW: You well know I am no good at metaphors!
Ellie: Sweet sweet Ellie.
Mariana: Yeah, I’m pretty used to no one knowing what the hell I’m on about most of the time.
Otto: Some places in the UK still have milk delivery trucks old school. Me, I drink chocolate soy milk out of the carton. And also, I can’t believe we’re talking about milk and you haven’t even attempted ONE double entendre! I am a little disappointed, frankly.
Jim: I don’t think I’d ever heard that, Jim. Or if I did, I promptly forgot. S’what I do best!
27th August 2009 at 2:37 am
I always liked that scene in Rebel Without A Cause where James Dean swigs the milk straight from the bottle.
Convinced me he was the toughest person in the world.
(Actually it made me laugh. His character is such a twat in that film.)