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