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