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