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