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