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