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