A Poem by Robert Creeley

This poem made me laugh when I was a freshman in college.  And it still does.

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.

 

Robert Creeley, from Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. University of California Press, 1991.