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