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