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