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