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