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