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