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