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