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