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