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