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