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