Under Words

Keep your head down and wait
For meaningful silence.
There’s always a subtext,

Explains the text, sharply.
So you keep your head down
And think about subtext.

Under text. Text under
Text. Text where there is no
Text, but where text is close.

Far, far away from text,
There can be no subtext.
You have to have the text

To consider subtext,
What the text didn’t say
And said by not saying.

You’ll never plagiarize
The subtext, not even
If you copy and paste

The whole unstated thing,
Every bit of blankness,
That silence, verbatim.