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