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