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