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