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Acid Reflux Early Morning August 9th 2022

Acid reflux ~ early morning August 9th, 2022 Ah... nothing more enjoyable than acidic gastric fluid (bile) flowing backward into esophagus, resulting in heartburn, meanwhile disrupting pleasant dreams, which phenomena also known as gastroesophageal reflux (GER) found me discombobulated and swiftly tailored into harried style. 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 dawn's early light burning sensation within deep tracts of throat did creep, yours truly immediately awoke with a start, at strong violent urge to upheap (upchuck, toss my cookies, regurgitate...) insync on par to set Guiness Book of world records to leap analogous to lemur at lightspeed into bathroom, (these lovely bones ne'er made jaunt to water closet but collapsed in a heap - injuring right hand in the process) nevertheless, I made little on the contrary no bowed peep, but immediately stood bolt upright stock still after crumbling to the floor tear ducts activated eyes as if ready to weep. Sadness less pervasive than fright since reverse peristalsis uncommon within mine body electric regarding plight, which analogous volcanic eruption albeit bubbling magmatic flow slight retroperistalsis or antiperistalsis found yours truly on par with fire breathing dragon argh ga you ably momentarily nonplussed - while dry cough minus gushing lava gratefully only smoldered before simmering upper gastrointestinal lining courtesy mouthfuls of bottled water allowed, enabled, and provided satiation sudden unquenchable thirst relieved resultant unpleasant aftertaste (no pun intended), yet distilling humor helps me weather, manage, cope... with unexpected physiological fiery phenomena - shot straight up within digest heave tract, and 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, (previous ten lines), I just wanted to incorporate said 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 equivalent to bliss, thus presenting quandary how kin this pronouncedly reasonably intelligent garden variety *****sapiens unfetter himself with cumulative knowledge without reek horse (neigh) to invasive surgery such as... prefrontal lobotomy, or tamping down smarts some unknown cyber surfer(s) could easily misconstrue as vainness, smugness, quintessential pomposity?

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