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