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