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