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