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