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