Manic Mondays Post Debauchery Detox-sicle
"Pucker Up Parsley"
Juice 2 lemons
a handful of parsley
Juice, then immediately sling back. Hope to forget the barrels of naughty you committed the weekend previous.
Parsley is chock full of B vitamin (good for hangovers and energy replenishment), it contains three times as much vitamin C as oranges, and twice as much iron as spinach, Parsley contains volatile oils that have been found to inhibit tumor formation in animal studies, particularly those in the lungs (smokers, pars-it-up), Lemon juice is a great liver tonic, Ph balancer and a great potent aid to detoxing.
Going out on the lemon note, here's one of my fav poems.
Ode To The Lemon by Pablo Neruda
Out of lemon flowers
loosed
on the moonlight, love's
lashed and insatiable
essences,
sodden with fragrance,
the lemon tree's yellow
emerges,
the lemons
move down
from the tree's planetarium
Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.
We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation's
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.
Cutting the lemon
the knife
leaves a little cathedral:
alcoves unguessed by the eye
that open acidulous glass
to the light; topazes
riding the droplets,
altars,
aromatic facades.
So, while the hand
holds the cut of the lemon,
half a world
on a trencher,
the gold of the universe
wells
to your touch:
a cup yellow
with miracles,
a breast and a nipple
perfuming the earth;
a flashing made fruitage,
the diminutive fire of a planet.
