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