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