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