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