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