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