NOTHING AND EMPTINESS
G: What do you mean by emptiness?
Me: I mean nothing.
G: Then why are we discussing it?
Take your tiny Tao shears
and snip emptiness out of Webster’s
and heave it into the void. It’s another
self-serving tool like time
and collateral damage
Cut wood, draw water
and stop sound-biting life to death
—and travel light (and lightly)
until no sun remains
nothing and emptiness
are for advanced students
with nothing to lose
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Jim Culleny
October 2007
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