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