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