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