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