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