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