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