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