I Know a Man

by Robert Creeley


As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking,-John, I


sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what


can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,


drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.


-from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975