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