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