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