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