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