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