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