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