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