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