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