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Self/No Self
Spring 1995   Vol. 11 #2
Spring 1995   Vol. 11 #2

Poems/Not Poems

The Tune of Nothingness

By Dan Clurman

 
 

 

Take your nothingness

even though you can’t take it,

take it anyway

 

Take these notes,

the nowhere of night,

the beat at the edge of yourself,

you over there

 

Take that tune singing

about being gone

past me

 

Take that open tune

sauntering across

the new moment

 

Take it, take it, not far,

off stage to your hidden room,

to your trunk of

nothingness tunes

 

Take yourself impossibly there

Do it now, now do it, do it

 

∞

 

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)
Text © 1995–2020 by Dan Clurman

Author

Dan Clurman is co-owner of coaching and consulting firm Communication Options (www.comoptions.com), a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, and a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner. His publications include Conversations With Critical Thinkers; a book of poetry called Floating Upstream; and (with Mudita Nisker) Money Disagreements: How To Talk About Them. He also draws koan-like cartoons; his book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere is available at www.dantoons.com. 

Author

Dan Clurman is co-owner of coaching and consulting firm Communication Options (www.comoptions.com), a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, and a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner. His publications include Conversations With Critical Thinkers; a book of poetry called Floating Upstream; and (with Mudita Nisker) Money Disagreements: How To Talk About Them. He also draws koan-like cartoons; his book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere is available at www.dantoons.com. 

 
 
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