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