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