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