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