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