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