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