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