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