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