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