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