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