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