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