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