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