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