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