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