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