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