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