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