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