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