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