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