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