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