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