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