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