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