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