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