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