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