an anecdote            
                                          
 today  it rained, and i would go outside 
 i  thought, so i  smoked  a pipe and got 
 dressed,  and   outside  the   rain  had 
 turned into  snow so thick that  it  was 
 as dense fog ... and then  i went to get 
 the  mail, but  there was a woman and we 
 talked a little. now because  i was high 
 and it was snowing so  funny and  i  had 
 an umbrella against the snow,  but  snow 
 all over  my face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life