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