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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