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