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