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