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