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