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