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