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