Mite Plane, ricercar a 6

The follicle mite* lives at the base of the hair in the subcutaneous glands of most humans.  He is a friendly sort who does not mind going wherever the host roams.  He is mostly a home-body, the sort who prefers to dine in alone rather than get dressed and go out with friends.  Most humans are not allergic to the follicle mite and generally we live together in relative harmony.  A few unfortunate souls, however, are allergic and these kinds of people can be seen with missing eyebrows or acne.

The human host, in a sense, acts as a sort of aeroplane that generously provides passage for the inadvertently travelling mite.  The usual plane of existence for a mite is that of a passenger on a huge cruise liner.  The itinerant miner lives mostly alone on this floating platform, content to eat and drink merrily at the font of human hair growth.  Occasionally the glands will close up or a follicle will die (especially in older humans) and the mite will be forced to move or die.  Over the course of a few weeks of a lifetime however, the mite does not usually have to worry about being evicted in its lifetime.

When the time comes to move as it always does, the mite can look for a new hovel to dig into so long as it is not already infested with another mite.  The mite is microscopic, but so are the cramped quarters of a sebaceous gland.  Assuming the follicle living space is not occupied, the mite can let the flat for quite a bargain.  That is, the mite can move in free of charge and take ownership of the follicle for the length of its short life.  The mite's short life, not the short life of the follicle.

The follicle is a veritable sack, or bra of life for the mite.  His room is sparse and bare.  He does not have all the modern accouterments you or I may have on our person.  For example, he does not warm himself beside a hearth wearing his smoking jacket and holding a pipe.  He does not gaze upon his mouth parts formed up in a ball like a head in a mirror.  He does not have a mattress or a bedpost or a side-table or a reading lamp. His home is just a dark dank hole in the host pores with no light or ventilation.  This is how the metaphor of a bra fits into the description of his home.  And that is just how he likes it.

Were you to look for a road sign to his home (and you would not, but let's pretend you would), you would see a bit of red irritation or perhaps a scab or flakes of dry skin.  These signs point toward the excrement that he leaves about his person (although he is a mite, not a person) and the irritants in this excrement would cause the white blood cells of the host antibodies to fight off the invaders.  The resulting fights would leave behind debris and toxins, the results of which might accumulate or be removed as the case may be by the host's cleanliness and habits.

In terms of promotion of the causes that the mite provides, we can point to several benefits.  The first benefit is the presence of mites and bacteria may be beneficial in occupying spaces in the human crevices that would otherwise fill up with truly harmful lifeforms.  These more deadly and dangerous lifeforms are crowded out or killed off by the mites and other beneficial creatures.  Their presence deters and prevents others from forming in the void that would remain if the mite were gone.  Second, the mite is a connoisseur of healthy pH and vitamins, which is a good indicator that other host bodily functions are correctly aligned.  That is, our friend the mite's presence also indicates were are indeed healthy and operating normally in some respects.

So it is that we are but a plane, a passing vessel for our friend the mite who hibernates at bargain rates in the bra of our follicle pores presenting a veritable road sign toward, and promotion of, good health.

Ricercar a 6 created from six random words from a web page: mite, plane, bargain, bra, road sign, promotion.  Discarded:  arch