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