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