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