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