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