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