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