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