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