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