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