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Challenge of the Week CXVI
The Most Useless Thing. Most things have a use, to someone or something. Does everything have some use, somewhere? Or are some things just useless? Write about the most useless thing you can think of. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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michal

The most useless piece of paper

I suppose its a nice wall hanging. Not the most beautiful of decorations, although maybe it would be more interesting if I could read latin. Certainly not worth the many thousands of dollars I payed for it, but there it hangs.

Of course, I could have hung a nice watercolor of flowers in the office instead, or a portrait of my family, a photograph of a mountain I'd visited many years ago. Instead, there hangs the latin block letters, my neatly printed in the middle.

I remember just a few years back, a late winter night in the library, thinking this piece of cardstock would change everything. The most important document I would ever get my hands on. But there it sits. Worthless. Useless. Possibly the most useless piece of paper I have ever owned. My liberal arts degree.