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