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