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