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