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