Attention Costly Signaling

If music is nothing but
Organized sound, noise, then what

Are organized words? You see
Where this is going, don’t you?

So obvious as to be
Near purely rhetorical.

Now take it a bit further—
What are organized meanings?

Careful. Don’t rush to answer.
The meanings aren’t in the words.

The meanings are given the words.
Some readers and listeners

Are generous with meaning.
Some can’t afford to lose theirs.