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