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