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