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