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