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