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