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