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