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