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