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