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