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