Status Updates From The Book of Jonah

‘—pleading with the captain not to abandon—ship. You may think that you have saved yourself—Here we are to understand that Jonah takes some meetings in order to establish himself as a prophet—You may reflect that these are the kinds of lengths a man will go to in order to find people who appreciate him. His adopted daughters—having escaped certain death—must now acclimatise to certain life—what is this, lychee skin?’

‘Most of us are God’s lost notebooks—This raises an important question—can someone you made up make something up? This is really the same question we ask repeatedly—in love—in large language models—hosannah in exegesis. I hope that this means more to you than it does to me. My love, this sentence. If someone you made up makes someone up it follows that the one they made up must be capable of it too—Baby, make me up.’

I’m keeping notes as I read, of stanzas I find interesting, etc. overall though I am lost

This is my first time reading contemporary poetry, ever. I also don't have much of a history with reading and analyzing poetry. That is to say, I'm not sure I have any idea what I'm reading!