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