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