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