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