Might the dust mite jam his little dust-mitey hands into my hair follicles?
One might never know exactly what a mite might do. Are dust mites akin to creatures with exoskeletons? The Arthropods have a lot to answer for in allowing their dusty compatriots into the club.
Don’t the Arthropods have a bouncer?
What the Arthropods do have is an exoskeleton (well not just one exoskeleton of course, that would be preposterous, how would they all fit inside of it?). Exoskeletons are crusty, like the many crustaceans that have their own exoskeletal structures.
Dust mites aren’t found in the sea though. Any of the seas. This is probably because there is no dust in the seas and again this is probably because dust needs to be dry to be dust and we know that the seas aren’t dry (all the ones I have heard of at least) and thus, we come to the conclusion that there isn’t any dust in the seas. But, no wait hang on.
Where was I going with this?
Ah yes, dust mites (sorry you’ll have to excuse the previous excursion. Surely the result of an over-tired brain making silly connections that don’t connect up properly.)
My scalp. It itches.
There is no dust mite atop my dome, my cranium. Not that I am aware of that is. The mind, or my mind at least, probably some other minds around the block will also tend to connect an itchy surface of skin with the small parasites. The dusty kind. I feel their non-existent limbs all over my head as we speak, or that is to say as I type.
My dust mite has no exoskeleton, it is not microscopic, and it is not the usual brown or dark colour that most other dust mites might be. Mine is green. And it is soft. And it is large.
Covering and protecting my head from the cold, my beanie makes my scalp itchy.
It itches. Green wool.
Itching.