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