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