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