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