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