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