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