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