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