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