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