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