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