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