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