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.