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