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