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