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