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