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