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