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