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