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