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