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