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