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