Yogurt
by Steven Gowin
Breakfast demands yogurt; it sounds a gentle reveille.
Wake up now stomach and the rest of you lazy digestive bits; hear the soft morning chimes.
Later, you've hit that four shot espresso limit; you've snarfed down that too rich mushroom korma… gone before you tasted it. You've drenched your gut in stress and caffeine. But as the acid roils below, that crazy firey bruja, toss away those Tums and Rolaids. The good infections will do for you. A couple big spoons full; yogurt puckers the gums and goes down smooth. Old Pliny knew; the stomach will be calmed.
Yogurt restores the karmic balance, the one you've chased with all that trash. It tunes the system, and the system tuned eases the mind.
Balance. It's all you want, you see? all we're heading for in the end anyway.
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Author's Note
Well, what the hell does the Bible say about yogurt? Nothing actually. This is a good one though.
Proverbs 23:20-21
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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I like to call it "the un-attainable balance."
finely wrought. now i'm hungry.
Thanks Clark. I think the balance is attainable. You just have to die.
James, thanks. Try it with avocado.
Food, my favorite subject. Restoring the digestive karmic balance is critically important. Old Pliny's yogurt differed from the commercially available today: dairy industry karma, impossible to balance. Avocado yes, good for balance.
Well, nothing is impossible so I should retract my previous statement about balancing dairy industry karma. I find it difficult. Others may differ, of course.
You've described parts of my own morning routine so well. Good last line: "Balance. It's all you want, you see? all we're heading for in the end anyway." I also like the concept of a "gentle reveille."