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