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