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