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