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