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