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