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