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