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