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