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