7/12/10

being nothing

Forget Sartre, I'm more taken with a lyric by Bruce Cockburn:

Nothing is sure
Nothing is pure
And no matter who we think we are

Everyone gets his chance to be nothing

Not merely being nobody (easy enough), but being nothing. Not just being insignificant, but assuming the identity of insignificance itself. Becoming one with the space between the stars.

Being non-being.

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