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