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