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