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