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