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