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