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