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