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