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