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