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