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