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