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