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