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