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