You Meant So Much More Than You Knew

Messages and meanings were encoded
Into everything, no matter how
Inert—indeed, the point of encoding

Was to discover how nothing could be
Inert, nothing could avoid meaningful
Interpretation—it’s all meaningful,

And humans had at it, adding meaning
To every insignificant wavelet
They swam across before it was their turn

To turn under and disperse with all their
Carefully articulated meanings.
They all said there were none. They all made more.