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