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Lint

Feb 11, 2016
I put my wardrobe in the wash
And spun it round about.
Then in the dryer did it go -
And then I took it out.
The thing, though, that amazes me
Is all the lint there was.
I asked a friend from whence it came,
She told me, "It's clothes fuzz."
I couldn't see how it could be —
My clothes were all still there
And so I thought I'd test it out
And my results I'll share.
I washed my clothes a million times
The lint I piled high.
From just a modest bag of clothes
The lint reached to the sky.
A new resource for energy
I've found, that's very green.
And as a nice by—product, we
Will all look very clean.
— Thayne Whipple

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