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