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