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