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