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