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