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