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