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