Is it the same thinking
“There is salt in the water,”
“There is salt water”

The one teleports me to my kitchen
awaiting rawness to be undone
The other to that ocean holiday
some but me are taking
awaiting baking in the sun

One, indirectly, implies increase in Celsius,
yes, and Fahrenheit and Kelvin
While, now, considering our collective predicaments,
the other does as well:
bye bye sashimi, hello sauerkraut

The one offers me intention,
or the result thereof
The other offers me determination
or the result at an astronomical timeline
beyond a kitchen timer

While both should be fact
only one might be false
hushing massive desalination
as a global recipe for geo-engineering

someone salty is angry,
irritated, yes, bitter
another is sharp,
witty, yes, piquant.

So, holistically,
if not one, then the other
a saltier 2024 it ought to be



—animasuri’23-24



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Trigger:

Searle, J. R. (Ed.). (2008). Fact and value, “is” and “ought,” and reasons for action. In Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays (pp. 161–180). Cambridge University Press.