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