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