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