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