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