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