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