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