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