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