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