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