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