If you go into the poem, as a riddle/problem, it is much like the odd "math"
logic problems
introduced by elementary teachers, to liven the imagination and break the
monotony of
straight forward mathematics.
>I Know a Man
>
>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.
>
>
>
>Note: Creeley found it amusing that his one poem that made it beyond the
>realm of poetry readers and students into the realm of pop culture is
>usually misread, as in the film title. He claimed that the I of the poem
>says the word "drive," the rest is John's. Makes it a more interesting poem
>(tho far from my favorite of Creeley's), but hard to imagine how even a
>pretty good reader would get this.
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