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