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