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