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