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