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