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