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