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