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