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