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