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