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