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