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