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