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