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