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