I quite like this. I took the "poison" line as a commentary about how worrying about and regretting missed opportunity can destroy us, if we're always fussing over what we didn't do, we can't appreciate life as it is. But this narrator is thinking "Wait, this isn't a matter of fault and blame. It just is." That's the grain of salt, the refusal to let the rhetorical loss of opportunity be bigger and more important than it really is.
In a way, the N's failure to use all of the available spices in the spice rack is indicative of how we should approach, and castigate, the N, and how the N should castigate him or herself—half-heartedly, and with a sense of irony. The tools are there, but why use them?
Enjoyed.
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