An Empty Hat Hook

While trudging through a new book storeI saw a hat hook. Nothing moreApparently used just for showOn a pillar by the fiction row. I looked it over once, then twiceOf antiqued brass it once was niceBut why here this poor neglected bitFor I could see no use of itWho hangs a hat near Bear or Clarke?Why should here it make its mark?I swear I found no use or function For a hat hook at this junction"So