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