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