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