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