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