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