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