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