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