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