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