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