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