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