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