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