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