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