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