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