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