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