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