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