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