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