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