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