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