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