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