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