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