he muttered

                    but only when he was alone  a lot when prepping dinner

has a tube container of sea salt

has had it for   Wha

                             possibly eleven years  sprinkles it sparingly on watermelon

two cats came into the kitchen

he muttered

they lookedup at him asif they understood

                                                 Wha

looking away they curledround Gumbylike and padded out of the kitchen

                                                                                                   what had he said

Ah

      he said  low sodium soy sauce used it to rinse remanent Roasted Garlic spaghetti sauce from a glass jar shook it hard phonaesthetic  rather than sea salt

   why its eleven years old

handily beating out a bag of sugar he keeps in a pantry cabinet  almost seven

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