that it turns you into salt

or clay

or walking, breathing sex

or power

or anger

or slick, hard muscle

or shinier tattoos

brighter hair

and day-glo skin.

the kind of sweat that makes you

sliiiide across a room

like an ice cube fallen to the floor

and you melt,

you know you melt at the feet

of whoever happens to be standing

there to

block

your slide