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