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