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