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