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