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