Ah ha that's funny. This poem is actually the same poem they use for Harold's short story which Frannie's dad reads aloud in the '94 mini-series. That's a neat easter egg I never caught.
+Oscar Blue Indeed it is. King wrote this poem in college, which is also when he first read Robert Browning's Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. One his greatest heroes and one of his greatest villains created at the same time, and all through poetry. :D
Doesn't really mean anything specific. It's just a quick first person perspective of the signature Man In Black describing some of the things he's seen in his many MANY years of traveling the Earth alone.
@@tomokat6547 it means sonething. It means stephens college years were admirable and strange and gritty and scary at times. It means he feared this jean jacket man. He thought nothing of him and hed keep coming up out of random places. All poetry has meaning. Be it but a "story" yu say.
King said he saw Flagg as an "outsider looking in". So you could make the case that the meaning is that evil is ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. A regular dude, walking on the road, who has no positive thought whatsoever, and can't empathize with regular people. Only hurt us
