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