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