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