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