Authors' Note: The role of the esophagus under normal conditions is the one-way transit of food from mouth to stomach, keeping tissue-irritating acid in the stomach; the gastroesophageal junction plays the key role in this function. Most of the medical and dietary treatments for GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease) only block some symptoms due to acidity of the regurgitated gastric contents. Surgery is generally reserved for severe, chronic and recalcitrant cases.
You can view these informative verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection "The BOTTOM LINE of MEDICAL HUMOR" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format proceed in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year.
Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF accession number for each of his 100 or so submitted multi-verse poems ('brief sagas numbering over 40) is shown here on the slide with its first verse.
To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (March 2021), proceed to 'Workplace Pollution' (compensable).
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (January 2020), back up to 'Italian Treats'.
