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