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