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