Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Perplexing Stuff

A perplexing phenomenon,

Belly button lint - why does it

Show up as I age on and on?

I have lots, others not a bit.

One theory is that tummy hair

On some folks acts like barbed hooks that

Pull clothing fibers that we wear

Into the naval habitat.

And this "lint" does accumulate

Until its host, someone like me,

Does notice and does contemplate

Removing this perplexity.

An ice breaker I did invent,

"Do you have belly button lint?"