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