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