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