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