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