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