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