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