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