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