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