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