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