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