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