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