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