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