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