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