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