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