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