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