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