Meaningless Information

We’re here to claim it’s not an oxymoron.
The information propagating itself
As life is meaningful if you find it is,

But not because it’s information and not
Because it replicates. Meaning’s something strange,
Stranger than replicating information.

Meaning’s why massive data can lead nowhere,
Why you cry that you’re not a mere statistic.
Meaning is nothing, nothing much, everything.

A trickier question is whether meaning
Even need involve any information.
We’ll say no. We’ll say new meanings can be found

In old information. From whence came meaning
If there wasn’t any new information?
Don’t you see? The distinction is meaningless.