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