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