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