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