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