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# Paperclip
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/paperclip/
- Published: 2021-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I praise the lonely paperclip Magnificent invention Quite recently, it used to keep Things needing your attention
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I praise the lonely paperclip  
Magnificent invention  
Quite recently, it used to keep  
Things needing your attention

And I hear once, not long ago  
This tale grows in the telling  
An expert trader – saw the show!  
Did trade it for a dwelling

But now, it’s lonely in a drawer  
and looking for a suitor  
no, we don’t need it anymore  
since we use a computer

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782988-Write-a-poem-praising-an-inanimate-object The story of the guy who started trading from a paperclip and traded up to a house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One\_red\_paperclip