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