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