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