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