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