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