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