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