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