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