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