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