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