Clocking up from the Basement Rocks

Delaware’s surface area, crumpled,
Would fill the Grand Canyon close to the rims.
Somewhere, there’s someone who’s hiked the Canyon
And walked the length of Delaware as well.

Information is shameless. It degrades
Itself repeatedly and has to be
Redressed. Trivia. What will Delaware?
A shame, and, as with shame in general,

The source is a species of deception,
Either the kind with its tail in its teeth
Or the kind with a fresh head for a tail—
Meaning, it’s not meaning’s escape that makes

Information’s blushing degradation.
If data’s ferrous, meaning’s oxygen.