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