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