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