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