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