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