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