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