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