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