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