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