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