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