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