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