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