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