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