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