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