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