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