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