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