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