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