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