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