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