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