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