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