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