Psst

Information made attention
Valuable. Correction. Language

Made information valuable
In ways demanding attention.

We can argue over whether
Speech was the first technology,

How much in the way of choppers,
Digging sticks, scrapers, spears, and fire

Could have preceded discussion,
But once words were commodities,

Once knowing gossip and technique
Became forms of resource-holding,

Attention took on new meaning.
Correction. Attention produced

Meaning. What does this mean? It means
We know secrets. Pay attention.