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