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