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