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