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