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