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