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