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