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