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