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