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