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