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