You Don't Know, Jacques*

There is nothing outside the text.
(You know what's coming next).
I don't wish – choose word carefully- to deride
your theory of readership, I take your side,
the limitless context informs – as you say -
everything: but this con – if I may
be bold, is outside the text, is it not?
I'm sure you're telling us something, but what?
Your incessant movement of recontextualisation
leads us not into literal temptation
just allows us the epiphanic realisation
that the outside becomes the inside,
and my subtext, that I do not really hide,
is your foundation is sand and no kind of rock
and your elegantly constructed theory – cock.

*Derrida