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