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