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