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