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Got Your Fluff Again

"Got your fluff again" (for purpose of this poem pronounce last word uh gain). The missus uttered aforementioned phrase as she pulled a clump of my hair from out the clogged shower drain for no rhyme nor reason lemme explain how so many globs of these strands linkedin to scalp courtesy hair follicle, which hair follicle essentially a tube-like structure (pore) that surrounds the root and strand of a hair. Hair follicles exist in the top two layers of skin. The average individual born with over five million hair follicles in their body and over one million hair follicles on his/her head, and as I aged about that many seem to get loosed when washing then rinsing hair, nevertheless more hair continues to grow out of hair follicles smaller in size than sand grain. I surmise that if laid end to end each hapless hair that got plucked out me noggin since birth would fill many a railroad car, (extending from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania to Ukraine) railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, rail carriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck; a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport. Said locomotive boxcars full to the brim with globs of hair (mine) after lathering locks (each filament evincing fifty shades of gray fibrous) composed of 95% keratin, a fibrous and helical protein (in the shape of a helix), which also comprises composition of the skin and of all the phanera (hair, nails, etc.). Synthesized by keratinocytes, keratin insoluble in water, thus ensuring waterproofing and protection for hair.

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