SALT

I went to the sauna
And stayed for twenty minutes

One man was there when I came in,
In the lotus position, arms akimbo

It was just the two of us

Then more arrived
And it so happened that

The circumcised sat on the left and
The uncircumcised sat on the right

Sweating it out

One man had yellow skin
And rubbed it with aloe

Another, reclining, rested his penis
On the Sunday paper

Uncomfortably

We waited for the salt to
Collect on our lips

To shake it off again,
Sweating it out

Preserved by the dry heat
of a wood cabinet

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