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