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