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