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