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