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