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