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