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