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