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