Microscopic Windfall

Perhaps I’m facing pogonophobes? Apparently wore the wrong face. Age-hardened wiry wisps forge post-pubescent platemail - protect strangers from my truest fleshy pores, protect me from the xenophobes of the Winter Conference. It’s all pitching and coffee breaks In a hall too grand for these meager mergers Silent hecklers - likely clean-shaven - likely Twitter-blasting about an awkward pitch and bitterness. A beard grows opacity over my ebullient disinterest, feigns sophistication amidst sophists, and harbors microbes – an entire ecosystem – Bored, I wonder; Do they hold conferences as well? Share stories around a follicle? How uncomfortable the itch of capitalism, This profit pilgrimage huddles us together for that sickness to spread. Free meals, networking with the estranged - connect vacuously over downed drinks and political action. Shallow words spread thick on the biological superhighway bacterium feast freely. The Winter Conference; a microscopic windfall. CONTEST ANNOTATION: I’ve attempted to employ alliteration (‘post-pubescent platemale’), ambiguity (‘…for that sickness to spread’), double entendre (‘free meals’ and ‘bacterium feast freely’), imagery (‘my truest fleshy pores’, ‘Age-hardened wiry wisps’), paradox (‘ebullient disinterest’, ‘networking with the estranged’), and parallelism (‘likely clean-shaven – likely Twitter-blasting’). Not sure I’ve nailed every aspect of these devices - love the contest format as a way to force us in new directions!