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