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