The Worth of Salt

Soldiers in Rome were
sometimes paid in salt.
The origins of the
current word 'salary'.

Every cell in the body
contains salt to live.
In an adult about
250 grams total.

Salt bars were once
standard currency
in Ethiopia and
mummy making in Egypt.

Salt can remove
red wine stains,
or in more dire times
blood stains as well.

Sodium is essential
to all transmissions
to and from the brain
as well as deep within.

Yet the whole/hole of you
& everything you are/aren't
has yet to meet the equal
of the amount of salt needed
to kill a slug or leech,
to pay a Roman for an
ill-performed blowjob,
to pay an Ethiopian
for a cup of infected water,
to clean your bloodstains
out of my beige carpet,
to power your sick brain
of thoughts for one hour,
or of all the salt in just
one of my tears of rage.