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