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