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