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