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