A Single Staple

Alone it shines and lies
Bent in to three thin glares
Glossy it sings blue verse
Lonely it looks up there
Naught without machine press
Power puncturing the soft
Pliable parts with a pat
Rigidly folded into porous
Bound papered pile
Pressed into a delicious stack
Lying so still next to the
Abandoned forlorn and
Futile staple

Post It

A preponderance of piled notes
Perpetuates the paper train
Of poorly worded queries and quotes
Halted by prepared adhesive gain
Brightly colored and evenly shaped
Boredom is given a break
On surfaces suspended with no escape
Waiting for fingers to take
Until prepared adhesive wears away
Personal and public mention post
It slowly is buried as minds stray
Falling forgotten it gives up the ghost

Ruler

Solemnly it straightens
To perfect the proportioned t
Remorselessly right and parallel
Rapping all matter to exact
Measurement of span and spade
Numerals betoken parts broken
Equal pieces line infinity
Supplanted by surface hard and
Taught line cuts the air
Incessant stretching somewhere
Supple space softly dissected
By piercing Euclidean procession
Cutting unknown to murky right and
Left the night for white paper edge
Pause to end that no line reaches
Phrases of the unending
Trapped by ruling line

Hourglass icon

No sand and interminable waiting
Intrinsically we know it never ends
Overcoming the day by day hating
Of customers as they become friends

Imagine it drips but no movement
Staring forever as life runs away
Frozen forever no hope of improvement
Mindless stupor turns everything gray

Hopeless still waiting ambition is dust
Waves of bureaucratic bored denial drown
Ambition dreams wishes are now disgust
Tragic money traitors we are brought down

Arrow pointing to the scarp
Jumping I forget as it starts

Binder Clips

For a person who REALLY likes binder clips:

Barely bending metal without breaking
Biting down into bundles of boring
Pressing so hard to release the smallest
Binding today reams of ridiculousness
Opening slowly to grasp at nothings
Holding tearing tightly never ever let go
Clutching too tight to the never known
Non sequiturs become a pile of
Clench to keep all chaotic questionnaires
Quelled into the tamed package
Unnecessary niceties bunched too thick
Staple to cringe and paperclip to flinch

Paperclip

Silver shimmer atop the white /
Biting down hold tight /
Tracing ovals in oblong spheres /
Gently restrain the dog ears /
Wandering memoranda mutilated /
Bunched with boring facsimile /
Fragile sheets thrust into metal /
Kill the flying and fancy free /
Notes and post and state and ment /
Anchored they are without /
A thought a whisper a sigh /
All disorder founders a faint goodbye /
Farewell sentiment and clutter /
Falling to homogenous stacks /
Tracing order into terror /
Independent annotations are /
Imprisoned

File Folder

File Folder /
Feels so smooth /
Manila sweeps the /
Clutter cleaned and piles packaged /
Red, green, blue fill so secondary /
Smells of clean paper chemicals /
And the touch of my yummy manila /
Tabs move and letters read /
Labels are given to nothings /
Nameless find names /
Hail to the folder /
Folding to hold the deepest notes /
The smallest memos /
Sheaves of mendacious minutia /
Tab trying to be seen /
Lost amid the /
File Folders