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