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