Your lips are chapped, it’s the gift of the leaving winter you eat something sprinkled with coarse grains of salt the salt is now on your lips, and it tingles, hurts just a little, you should probably remove it with a napkin, but instead you take some lip balm and rub it gently on your lips so that the salt remains right there
Before death, the only one vital question:
have you tasted salt on the cracks of your lips?