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