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