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