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