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