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