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