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