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