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