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