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