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