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