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