Analysis of "What is Not" by Arthur Solway

 Poem Found Here: "What is Not" by Arthur Solway

"My twisted alibi."  I know that the poet said this is a play on words, but I think this opening line and the title of the poem is playing with the idea of meaning or rather the lack of.  What happens when there is no meaning in meaning.  

"the silent who and / almighty why / or misplaced where [...]" undefined interrogative determiners (I had to look up the term again after so long of probably never remembering these terms that I supposed to read in a book) even if they have adjectives behind them.  The adjectives don't illuminate meaning but rather how the interrogative determiner is viewed -- telling, vulnerable, and placed hen defined, but concepts when not.

"[...] Or what as in / what went wrong / and when] A play of language using alliteration.  At this point of the poem, it feels like I'm talking to the Riddler waiting for a meaning to answer a riddle, but the play is not the meaning, "What is not turned /sideways or backwards?"

But this lack of meaning is what is exciting at the moment because what is left? "A lifeless rut, a knot, in / my most likely never / and all for naught, not knowing if / I aced the test."  I noted the play of "n" sounds.  I also took these lines as though to reinsert the lack of meaning and focus on the play of sounds here.  What's the test?  Who cares?  But there's a reference to reason/meaning in the next couple of lines, "Notwithstanding, it / kneels to reason / if not is the godless spot of / who I am, I forget."

What does "it" mean in a poem like this?  Doesn't matter.  The focus for me is the last line in relation to this play, "who I am. I forgot."  Why can't fun just be fun -- godless/meaningless/lack of reason?  All the questions that should've been asked don't lead to anywhere.  Where the poem has more life in the play than the lifeless rut of trying to mean something.