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