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