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