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