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