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