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