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