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