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