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