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