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