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