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