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