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