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