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