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