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