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