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