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