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