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