Acid reflux ~ late morning November 29th, 2021

Ah... nothing more enjoyable than acidic gastric fluid (bile) flowing backward into esophagus, resulting in heartburn, disrupting pleasant dreams. Unsure how successful literary endeavor crafting reasonably rhyming poem (actually the following written a couple years ago with only slight modification) regarding aforementioned topic yielding moderately satisfactory (née middling) result.

 

While deeply asleep
scant minutes before high noon siesta

burning sensation within deep

tracts of throat did creep,
yours truly immediately awoke
with a start, at strong violent

urge to upheap

visualizing setting Guiness Book

of world records leap

ping at lightspeed into bathroom,
nevertheless, I made little

or no bowed peep,
but sat bolt upright stock still
tear ducts activated eyes
as if ready to weep.

Sadness less pervasive than fright

since reverse peristalsis uncommon

within body electric regarding plight,

which analogous volcanic eruption

albeit bubbling magmatic flow slight

near regurgitation found yours truly
on par with fire breathing dragon ar
goo ably momentarily nonplussed -

while dry cough minus gushing lava

gratefully only smoldered before sim

 

ring after singeing
upper gastrointestinal lining did
allow, enable, and provide mouth
fulls of distilled water satiate sudden
unquenchable thirst relieved result

ant unpleasant aftertaste (no pun

 

intended), yet distilling humor helps

me weather, manage, cope... with

unexpected physiological fee nom
mina - shot straight up within digest
heave tract, and I did lament this rick

kitty packet of muscle and bone aft
times susceptible to disheartening
woebegone news afflicting this non
Norwegian bachelor farmer, whom
if the missus cooking triggered bout

unleashing bit torrent of unsavory
plate tectonics, perhaps indicative
of continental drift shrunk down to
miniature, (think nanobot size)
where fault in thee stars

must be held in contempt of court.

No reason for inclusion of above verse,
(constituting six lines), I just wanted

to incorporate gibberish phrases, tip peer

me got some legal lear'n, when truth

Philly admits he seems to know less,
the more he learns, which prompts me to

posit emphatically that ignorance iz

equivalent to bliss, thus presenting

quandary how kin this pronouncedly
reasonably intelligent garden variety
Homo sapiens unfetter himself with

cumulative knowledge without reek
horse (neigh) to invasive surgery such as...
prefrontal lobotomy, or te deum down -
smarts some unknown cyber surfer(s)
could easily misconstrue as vainness,
smugness, quintessential pomposity?