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