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