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