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