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