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