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