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