VITAMINS AND MINERALS

1. The Rooms Look Bad
2. The Man, So Stuck
3. He Wants to Move
4. He Takes a Nap
5. He Falls Away
6. He Sleeps Too Much
7. He Needs to Breathe
8. He Finds the Book
9. Just for Example
10. And So He Does
11. Just Follow Me
12. He Grabs Some Cake
13. It Comes to This
14. The Soul Seems Lost
15. Kick Ass




9.

HIS SOUL:

Just for example. Just for example.

Let us consider salt.
Salt has got a bum wrap lately and labeled mostly as a fault.

Just for example. Just for example.

People seem to like the taste, but not the side effects.
But have you ever heard that salt has caused anyone defects?

Now I know that you should watch your salt if your blood pressure is high.
But you also need some sodium if and when it’s time to sweat or maybe time to cry.
Without the salt, you may not cry
And keep that pain locked up and dry.
It may just sound a little strange
But salt, it seems, produces change.
It provides release and reduces stress.
And I guess it cuts the guess out of the guesswork, I would guess.
For if you’ve noticed through the years
When you cry and cry a lot, don’t you always marvel at the taste of salty tears?
For I believe that tear’s main function is a bit abstract.
It comes to you to rescue you, to interrupt you, or distract.
To make you pause and notice it.
Forget the source of pain a bit.
To reassure that pain is gritty, but you are most alive.
For without that salt, you would digress and I bet you’d never thrive.
And as you, yes, should watch your salt, you shouldn’t cut it out.
A salt-free diet, you might not cry, but I guarantee you’d pout.
So I think that you should go and try it.
And add some salt, bring out the salt, to supplement your diet.

Just for example. Just for example.

03/19/2008

Author's Note: Vitamins and Minerals was written in June 2003. It was originally performed as a One-Man-Poetry-Show at One Arm Red Theatre in DUMBO, Brooklyn. You can read the poem in its entirety. Or broken up in 15 individual pieces.

Posted on 03/19/2008
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