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