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