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