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