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