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